Posted on 07/17/2012 3:32:46 PM PDT by chargers fan
Today in 1955 was the opening day of Disneyland with an hour long special on ABC (attached). Ronald Reagan is one of the narrators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzrZET-3Ew
Went the first month Disneyland was opened.......such good memories.
Ronnie Reagan makes an a appearance with Art Linkletter.
My Uncle (Mom’s twin brother) and his wife took my brother and me to Disneyland shortly after the grand opening in 1955!
Amazingly, we’re all still alive and kicking!
I got sick as a dog on the flying saucers but, otherwise, had a wonderful time. Well, good enough to remember for 57 years! I’ve been back twice, 1967 (high school trip) and 1982 (vacation with the kids). I’ve even been to Disneyworld. Epcot is amazing, too!
Since Walt’s death, The Disney parks have really gone downhill. The whole organization is so anti-family and anti-christian that I’ll never go again!
So since you are a Disney old timer like me, do you remember that hover ride?
Sort of looked like disks, air rushed up and out lifted the cars and you just sort of floated around with no control whatsoever. (Maybe those were the spaceships.)
Flight to Mars, an hour wait........ ;-)
House of Tomorrow......
Enough, glad you have good memories.
Used to go alot when we lived in Ventura area back in the 1960’s.
Went again for the 30th anniversary.
My grandparents lived in Venice, really close.
My uncle was in college with a guy who’s father did the special effects for Zorro, so we were always getting free tickets.
Now that I have grandkids, we go as much as possible. (live in Santa Barbara, just 90 miles)
We have a parking stub from 1961 when my parents visited Disneyland. 25 cents
That would be fun.
One of my favorite pictures is of my grandma and me walking hand in hand down Main Street, my daughter took a picture of my granddaughter and me walking down Main Street
- same buildings, same sunny afternoon, same old lady and young girl.....
Once when we were there, Nixon was there with his girls, and we (his girls and my sister and I) all stood in line and chatted about the ride we were going on, something in Tomorrow Land.
When Disneyland opened in 1955 the price of an admission ticket was $1.00. Click the link below for a timeline of attractions & prices.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_Disneyland_opening_price_in_1955#ixzz20vON4b1H
I wonder if that was the same day I was there. It was the day in 1959 they first opened the Matterhorn. I was only 9 years old but I got Fred McMurry's autograph (My Three Sons TV show) and Vice President Nixon was there in a parade with Walt Disney. It was "Press Day" (my Dad was a press photographer) and we got to go on all of the rides free with a wrist band as many times as we wanted.
Could be, I do remember lots of photographers.
Somehow my Three Sons seems familiar.
So you didn’t need E tickets... ;-)
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My enduring memories are the Dumbo ride, the tea cups and Frontier Land and the empty lake!
They took awhile to finish the lake and fill it.
I also remember that we could see the top of Captain Hook’s ship from the bedroom window of the house where we stayed!
Captain Hook. My Dad lost an arm in WWII and at that time the prosthetic was a hook. After the first visit to Disney, we played Peter Pan until I am sure he wanted to scream. But how cool it was in the neighborhood we had a real Captain Hook.
We never got into the Peter Pan thing. We were too busy jumping off roofs with Zorro!
The reason Uncle Jim took us was my step dad was in Korea. We were an Army family! Everyone, except me! I got a virus that the civilian doctor working for the Army mistreated for a year. Portsmouth Naval finally operated.
My dad was WWII Navy, he died in ‘52 from an industrial accident. Step dad died from his service in ‘Nam because of exposure to Agent Orange.
Thank you for posting this birthday announcement yesterday. What a hoot! I have sent it all around. We are still singing, “Bang goes Old Betsy!” - the song celebrating the pioneers’ use of their rifles against: bears, Injuns, bad guys.
Might make a nice flag to hang next to Don’t Tread on Me.
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